Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

4/1/1978 - 10/31/1978

Funding Totals

$502,494.00 (approved)
$502,494.00 (awarded)


Men of Iron: The 19th Century Industrial Experience

FAIN: GN-10577-78

Mohawk-Hudson Council on Educational TV, Inc. (Schenectady, NY 12301)
Daniel J. Walkowitz (Project Director: April 1978 to present)

To produce a 90-minute film dramatizing how competing class and ethnic interests shaped the 19th century industrial city. Story is based on the history of Troy and its iron-worker community during the 1860s and 1870s. Program is intended for a general television audience and will be offered for national broadcast through PBS.